LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harmony
Exmouth, Devon - At 8.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a yacht was in distress off Brandy Head near Beer. There was fresh west south westerly breeze with moderate sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty...
A Bronze Medal Service at Maryport
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
Category: Services
Fitz's Flyer
Four rescued HEARING, soon after 1300 on Sunday December 14, 1980, that a yacht firing red flares had been reported off Eastoke Head, Hayling Island, Crew Member Frank Dunster together with Trevor Pearce, a shore helper and first aider, and...
Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch
Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
November (1)
danger they put out. They did not reach and rescue the boys until they were two miles out and their boat half full of water. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 2.30 in the afternoon of...
Category: Services
Neco Marine Ltd.
The wannest drop in the ocean Abotdeof3-star Martell brandy is carried on every lifeboat in British waters for the comfort of survivors..
Category: Advertisement
Zircon (1)
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
Robert Johnson
May 1979 Robert Johnson, motor mechanic of Longhope lifeboat from 1929 to 1965.
Bob Johnson first went out in the lifeboat in 1916 and served as assistant mechanic from 1926 to 1929..
Category: Obituaries
Keeping In Trim
Keeping in trim Albert Sutherland, coxswain of Fraserburgh lifeboat, gets a new hairstyle from Banff and Buchan college students (from left) Deborah Strachan, Maria Mutch and Marion Johnston. They donated the £1,041.16 they had raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (3)
MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.
On...